Insubstantial Quotes
36 quotes by 33 authors
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
— Hosea Ballou
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Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
— Sun Tzu
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Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep…
— Hari Kunzru
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a…
— Gregory Benford
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Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
— Euripides
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We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,…
— Medard Boss
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My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information…
— Hideo Kojima
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The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good…
— James Cash Penney
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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
— Sophocles
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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room...
— Laozi
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A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force,…
— Brian Tracy
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To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment,…
— Jan Morris
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The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the…
— Walter Moers
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There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel…
— E L Doctorow
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At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his…
— Richard E. Byrd
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Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as…
— Walter Lippmann
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There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to…
— Frederick Lenz
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The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from…
— R. D. Laing
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The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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